Improvement in coin-wrappers



E. A. SCOTT COIN-WRAPPERS.

No. 186,886. Patented Jam 30,1877.

Witnesses UNITED STATES Parana QFFIGE.

ETHAN A. SCOTT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CQIN-WRAPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,886, dated January30, 1877; app ica on filed May 17, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ETHAN A. SCOTT, of the city and county of SanFrancisco, State of California, have invented an ImprovedExposing-Wrapper for Coin-Packages; and I do hereby declare thefollowing description and accompanying drawing are sufficient to enableany person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearlyappertains to make and use my said invention without further inventionor experiment.

My iIlVelltlOlLI'GlEttGS to a novel wrapper for enveloping packages ofcoins so as to hold them in a convenient shape for businesstransactions, and at the same time expose them so that a glance willshow the nature of the package without the trouble of unrolling andexamining each package.

Where silver coin is used in large quantities it is customary to make itup into twenty-dollar rolls, these rolls beingen veloped in a brownpapercovering, and when the rolls boar the mark or advertisement of anyresponsible firm they are accepted as correct without the delay ofunrolling and examining them, being simply weighed. This practice hasled to attempts to defraud, either by inserting smaller coins betweenthe half-dollars in such rolls, or by taking a piece of lead pipe,filling it until the proper weight is reached, and placing a real coinat each end of the roll, so that, unless entirely opened, the fraud willnot be detected.

In order to prevent such difficulties, and at the same time make a rollwhich can be at once inspected, I form my wrappers A of the usual sizeand material, and with a properlyconstructed die I perforate them withround holes B. These holes are made in sets, so that they will extendfrom end to end of the roll, as shown, and they are placed at such adistance apart that when the necessary number of thicknesses of paperhave been rolled about the coins the holes in the outer layer willexactly fit over the holes in the inner layer of the envelope. In orderto expose all the coins there are two sets of holes, B B, and one setstand opposite to the covered space between the other set-or, in otherWords, break joints with them.

A sufficient space is left for advertisements upon the outside of thewrapper, and from the shape of the holes the strength of the materialwill be preserved, while the necessity for unrolling the coins will beavoided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A coin-wrapperconsisting of an envelope perforated with holes B B, and so arranged inalternate rows as to expose the contents of the whole package withoutunrolling it, substantially as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ETHAN A. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

GEo. H. STRONG, Guns. G. PAGE.

